None But the Lonely Heart
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24 song compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are combined to create an intimate evening of musical theatre that shows five characters and their contradictory emotions: repressed feelings of love are juxtaposed with the search for intoxicating moments; the grief over broken relationships repeatedly leads to withdrawal and loneliness.
Actors
Baritone
Soprano
Olesya Golovneva
Mezzo-soprano
Tenor
Baritone
Crew
24 song compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are combined to create an intimate evening of musical theatre that shows five characters and their contradictory emotions: repressed feelings of love are juxtaposed with the search for intoxicating moments; the grief over broken relationships repeatedly leads to withdrawal and loneliness. An interpersonal dynamic develops in which unfulfillable longings, repressed memories and emotional dependencies of the individual characters are revealed. In a poetically dense sequence of images, the production also alludes to motifs from Tchaikovsky’s biography, which is characterised by ambivalences. Christof Loy's staging includes rarely performed Lieder, interspersed with short works for piano and chamber music.
“I don’t know which singer to single out, they were all great.” Opernwelt
“I don’t know which singer to single out, they were all great.” Opernwelt
Musical Works
(in chronological order)
Dumka in C minor, Op. 59
(excerpt)
Reconciliation, Op. 25/1
Text: Nikolay F. Shcherbina
I never spoke to her, Op. 25/5
Text: Lev A. Mei
To forget so soon
Text: Aleksey N. Apukhtin
Evening, Op. 46/1
Text: Ivan Z. Surikov
Say of what, in the shade of branches, Op. 57/1
Text: Vladimir A. Sollogub
Coral beads, Op. 28/2
Text: Lev A. Mei after Władysław Syrokomla
A soul flew quietly in the heavenly heights, Op. 47/2
Text: Aleksey K. Tolstoy
Amid the din of the ball, Op. 38/3
Text: Aleksey K. Tolstoy
Song of the gypsy girl, Op. 60/7
Text: Yakov P. Polonsky
On yellow fields of grain, Op. 57/2
Text: Aleksey K. Tolstoy
I won’t say anything to you, Op. 60/2
Text: Afanasy A. Fet
Sextet in D minor Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
2nd movement: Adagio cantabile
The Night
after W. A. Mozart’s Fantasy KV 475 (Andantino)
Text: Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky
The Night, Op. 60/9
Text: Yakov P. Polonsky
He loved me so, Op. 28/4
Text: Aleksey N. Apukhtin
Why?, Op. 6/5
Text: Lev A. Mei after Heinrich Heine
None but the lonely heart, Op. 6/6
Text: Lev A. Mei after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As over darkly glowing ambers, Op. 25/2
Text: Fyodor I. Tyutchev
Wasn’t I a blade of grass, Op. 47/7
Text: Ivan Z. Surikov
Zemfira’s Song
Text: Alexander S. Pushkin
Not a word, my friend, Op. 6/2
Text: Aleksey N. Pleshcheyev after Moritz Hartmann
Frenzied nights, Op. 60/6
Text: Aleksey N. Apukhtin
Final (Allegro vivace) from the ballet Sleeping Beauty
Piano transcription: Mikhail Pletnev
The sun has set, Op. 73/4
Text: Daniil M. Rathaus
The lights were going out in the rooms, Op. 63/5
Text: Konstantin K. Romanov
Again as before alone, Op. 73/6
Text: Daniil M. Rathaus
